I'M SIEGFRIED SASSOON

In 2009 BRIAN BLESSED featured on the debut album Beneath The Veiled Embrace by UK power-metal band Pythia.

Well, I had only idly looked at his Wikipedia page to see if there was any mention of his bizarre right foot and how it affected his mountain climbing, but I had to go and listen to that immediately, didn't I? It took me a moment to realize how much things have changed since only about five years ago - at that point, though you tend to remember the Internet as being fairly mature in 2005, I would have been limited to scouring around 30-second clips on Amazon if not just ordering the physical album itself. Now we've just got Youtube.

The song in question, "Army of the Damned" is here, and from initial impressions they sound like a fairly standard Nightwish-style operatic metal band (though the video uploader has chosen to set the song to a vast collection of contemptibly masturbatory sort of fantasy romance novel artwork, so it may not be quite safe to look at at work). King Richard IV's own star appearance is limited to a reading of "Suicide in the Trenches" that appears at the very end, but he puts so much of his usual gigantic personality into it that the separation from the actual song really isn't a disappointment.

Christopher Lee, Brian Blessed... who's next to make the step into metal narration? Hugo Myatt?